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[–] madjo@feddit.nl 67 points 4 days ago (16 children)

Look at how Teheran women were dressed in the 70s, and contrast that to how they're dressed now. The same future awaits American women.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Margaret Atwood is rolling in her... checks google... Well-appointed Canadian home.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure she's just going "I literally warned all of you, and the government is using it as an instruction book."

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[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 49 points 4 days ago

The Anti-DEI people hate women? Whodathunk

[–] tree_frog@lemm.ee 225 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (35 children)

I'm not sure if the article covers it, still reading, but one of the things they want to do to disenfranchise transfoks is to require the the name on your birth certificate matches you're legal name in order to vote.

As most married women don't change their name on their birth certificate when they take their husbands last name, they would not be able to vote either.

Edit: The article does go into all of this.

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 88 points 5 days ago (10 children)

Interesting thing about that is that, while it's still common practice, a lot of more left-leaning women did away with taking their husband's name years ago

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 61 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Yeah my wife and I just kept our name. Its funny because over the years we sorta wish we would have done the traditional thing as it would make a variety of things easier but now apparently its becoming a brilliant move.

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[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 52 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (14 children)

Scanning the article, the practical threat (besides crazy ideological stunts) seems to be stealth disenfranchisement of this type:

House Republicans passed a bill (which stalled in the Senate) this session to require citizens to have a passport or birth certificate matching their name to vote. This would be a back-door ban on voting for any woman who took her husband's last name and doesn't have a passport, an estimated 69 million women. It would also disproportionately affect Republican women, who are more likely to be married, more likely to have changed their name and less likely to have a passport.

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Christian right woman will support this. "He's right, I'm not fully capable."

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 103 points 4 days ago (29 children)

Imagine how little self-respect you'd have to have to be a woman and vote Republican.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 44 points 4 days ago

Making sure that women have very little self-respect is one of the primary functions of American Evangelicalism.

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[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 91 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I can't help but think of how this cartoon from the beginning of November got it completely backward

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[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 20 points 3 days ago

"When they came for me, there was nobody left to help."

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 106 points 4 days ago (4 children)

This isn't a leaopards eating faces thing for republican women. These women derive social, economic, and political benefits through their association with the men who hold power in our patriarchal system. By aligning with backwards gender roles or evil ideologies, they feel protected and valued within the system even as it restricts their autonomy. They know what they're doing.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 4 days ago (10 children)

They do, but there is an assumption that the relationship between women like that and the wealthy ruling class men they attach themselves to is reciprocal. It, of course, is not.

Take the woman who has a child by Elon Musk. Her and Musk had a romantic getaway and brief liason. She clearly wasn't upset at being pregnant by him. There was an assumption that she'd be cared for. Even if not directly, indirectly. She definitely did not anticipate that she would actually be confined to an apartment 24 hours a day, entirely neglected without any contact from the father of her child. Nor that she'd be left with a child to raise on her own, and no support either financial or emotional or in terms of literal labor.

Call her ignorant and bigoted, both are valid criticisms. But she absolutely was not anticipating this outcome. There is a presumption from conservative/fascist women that they occupy a position of hierarchy over non-fascist/non-conservative women. That by virtue of supporting fascism and patriarchy that fascist men will afford them personhood. They don't believe in any of the assertions of feminism. They instead believe that women who suffer at the hands of men simply deserve it. That all women are judged in some kind of meritocracy, where belief in fascism and support of fascists itself is a determining factor of merit.

They are infuriatingly wrong. But do not be so quick to mischaracterize all conservative/fascist women as knowingly participating in the elimination of their own rights. They are systematically indoctrinated. Inexcusably, I will add. There is no justification for supporting fascists, no justification for supporting violence against women. To combat the ideology they espouse it is crucial to understand not just what they say but what they think.

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[–] halykthered@lemmy.ml 33 points 4 days ago

I read years ago that white republican women will put up with being treated as lesser in their circles in order to treat others as lesser. So they're fine with being spoken down to and shuffled aside so they can feel free to yell at minorities.

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[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 122 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Remember the MAGA women wearing the "You Can Grab My Pussy" shirts? Not all Republican women are going to be upset by this.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 61 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Project 2025 will create the Christian Taliban. I highly doubt the dumb fuck female MAGA voters will realize what they voted for.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago

Some of them want to be subservient. I've heard some even lament voting before. The Christian brainwashing is pervasive to all parts of life.

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Incels are finally having their moment. Next they will propose laws requiring hot girls to date them.

[–] Noved@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 days ago

Not date them, breed ala handmaids tale

[–] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 15 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Incels aren't getting shit out of this, this benefits rightwing patriarchs who have abused wives at home.

Incels are alone in a basement or some shit dreaming about being the rightwing patriarch but the rightwing patriarch doesn't likely feel anything but disgust for the incel. They'd purge the incel in a heartbeat if they could.

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[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago

Republican women: dehumanizing themselves to pwn the libs since Reagan.

[–] caffinatedone@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (3 children)

For the believers, I think that tmany would be fine with this. It reinforces their preferred structure of a patriarchy in which they have a well-defined place and role (head of the domestic household, subservient to the man). No worries about having to deal with a fickle job market or figuring out what you want to do with your life. Your life path is set (get married, raise kids, take care of family), and, for some, that well-defined role the status that it conveys is really comforting. It provides a sense of security.

It's why, I expect, while there are many who fight it, there are plenty of women in Muslim societies who are fine with things as they are. We emphasize with those women who chafe at that and fight it since we've history valued the individual rights of self-determination and freedom, of course.

Thats a big allure of the American taliban to some folks. It provides structure and defined roles in a chaotic world.

Of course, republican men like it for the power, but more importantly, that women voters mostly vote against them. Stopping women from voting would cement them in power.

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[–] gamer@lemm.ee 36 points 4 days ago (3 children)

My prediction for a future military incel recruitment poster:

Join the America Russia North Korea (ARNK) alliance in our war against the WOKE DEI Euro Chinese Soros COMMUNIST SCOURGE and you will be guaranteed a VIRGIN wife! ENLIST TODAY!

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 65 points 5 days ago
[–] yarr@feddit.nl 14 points 4 days ago

Can't wait to see all the videos of right-wing women surprised: "What?!! No one told us he was going to do this! We thought when he said he hated women he was only trolling/owning the libs/joking around!"

[–] Juice@midwest.social 40 points 4 days ago (9 children)

What if wanting to believe that there is some nice place that good people go when they die, leads people to support the mass murder and immiseration of countless women, children, queer people and BIPOC?

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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 63 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Tis is gonna be one of the most delicious schadenfraude of all. They think they are safe, but soon enough they are going to discover how important is being a white straight able-bodied male for these fascists. And how unimportant they are outside of a bedroom or a kitchen.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 69 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

You're overestimating Republican women...

Ever hear one of those stories about a Military wife who believes Rank is sexual transmitted so she has all the authority of her husband?

That's how they think.

It's not that all women are lower than all men, it's that the wife has the defacto "rank" as the their husband.

Disclaimer:

Obviously I'm not saying I agree with it, but that's how they think and why they're ok with this.

You have to think like them, they're "property" so treating a man's wife badly is like going up and pissing on his giant truck, the man will "handle" the offense. And the only way for a woman to gain social ranking is marrying a "powerful" man.

A frightening amount of woman think that's a good system.

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[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 49 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I wish it was only republican women losing their rights.

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 57 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It is almost like MAGA is sexist.

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[–] casmael@lemm.ee 44 points 4 days ago

Oh wow who could have predicted this

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Face eating leopards are going to be morbidly obese by the end of this administration.

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